AUTOLYTIC HYDROGEN GENERATOR

The battery generates Hydrogen by electrolysis from a suitable electrolyte: sea water, tap water sodium chloride solution or brine. This technique evolves H2 at both electrodes 99% pure.

Increasingly, large amounts of hydrogen are used in industrial processes and actually, as a propeller fuel for space vehicles and in recent years is being recognized as the ideal one for automotive and other engines as a utility fuel, inasmuch as its combustion with oxygen produces pure steam instead of pollutants and with air minimal controllable emission of nitrogen oxides. While the proposed use of hydrogen for the above purposes is the subject of many papers, actually, besides the NASA program there is not a widespread use of the concept, experimental work in projects to power automobiles fuelled by hydrogen were and are actually performed in this country, Europe, and Japan while everyone demonstrated the excellence of the gas as energy carrier and its superior performance, in all cases hydrogen was and is supplied by the following methods:

1-      Pressurized

2-      Liquefied

3-      Stored in metal Hydrides

The major factor that actually precludes the use of hydrogen as an automobile fuel or for that matter as a utility fuel is that besides the problem of storage and delivery, the cost of production with the known techniques in amounts equivalent in terms of BTUs of energy, exceeds greatly the cost of conventional fossil fuels, even considering the fact that weight by weight hydrogen is three times more powerful than gasoline. The generator solves the problem of cost because the gas is evolved at each electrode, cathode and anode of the battery. It also solves the problem of storage and delivery because the gas is produced insitu and as needed. The system allows for much lower pressures and much lower volumes of free hydrogen over other methods. This means that this method will give longer ranges under much safer conditions for vehicles and longer usage for stationary applications.

Since this is also a primary battery one of the electrodes is consumed. The product of this is a precipitate that can be recuperated through a filtering process and then recycled back to the metal via a three step process:

1-Chemical                       2-Drying                                           3-Electrolysis